Cinema and Agamben Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image [Paperback]

Cinema and Agambenbrings together a group of established scholars of film and visual culture to explore the nexus between the moving image and the influential work of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Including two original texts by Agamben himself, published here for the first time in English translation, these essays facilitate a unique multidisciplinary conversation that fundamentally rethinks the theory and praxis of cinema. In their resourceful analyses of the work of artists such as David Claerbout, Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe Grandrieux, Michael Haneke, Jean Rouch, and others, the authors put to use a range of key concepts from Agamben's rich body of work, like biopolitics, de-creation, gesture, potentiality and profanation. Sustaining the eminently interdisciplinary scope of Agamben's writing, the essays all bespeak the importance of Agamben's thought for forging new beginnings in film theory and for remedying the elegiac proclamations of the death of cinema so characteristic of the current moment.

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Introduction: Giorgio Agamben and the Shape of Cinema to Come, Asbj?rn Gr?nstad & Henrik Gustafsson
For an Ethics of the Cinema,Giorgio Agamben
Cinema and History: On Jean-Luc Godard, Giorgio Agamben

Chapter 1. Silence, Gesture, Revelation: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Montage in Godard and Agamben, James S. Williams
Chapter 2. Passion, Agamben and the Gestures of Work,Libby Saxton
Chapter 3. Gesture, Time, Movement: David Claerbout meets Giorgio Agamben on the Boulevard du Temple,Janet Harbord
Chapter 4. Film-of-Life: Agamben's Profanation of the Image,Benjamin Noys
Chapter 5. Biopolitics of Gesture: Cinema and the Neurological Body,Pasi V?liaho
Chapter 6. Propositions for a Gestural Cinema: On 'Cin?-Trances' and Jean Rouch's Ritual Documentaries,Jo?o M?rio Grilo
Chapter 7. Engaging Hand to Hand with the Movl3+